Chapter 34 Legal issues

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Kenneth Starr was the lead counsel in 1995 for twelve tobacco companies who tried

to decertify a class action suit against the tobacco industry. He invoked attorney-client

privilege in 1995 before an appellate court to aid his client Brown and Williamson in

their "efforts to intimidate and frustrate [Congressmen] Henry Waxman and Ron

Wyden, who'd used a cache of Brown and Williamson internal documents in their

House investigation of the cigarette industry." (Frank Rich, New York Times).

Representative Waxman commented: "It is questionable for a special prosecutor to

moonlight at all. But to front for the tobacco industry to stop the public from hearing the

truth is not helpful in insuring confidence in the highly political Whitewater case."

Starr's hourly rate was $390.

...And the Horse He Rode In On, James Carville, Simon and Shuster, 1998, pp.

72-74

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"Despite some rising pretenders, the tobacco industry maybe the king of concealment

and disinformation...The plaintiff has presented strong evidence that defendants knew

of the health risks implicated by cigarettes."

Judge Lee Sarokin (World Smoking and Health, No. 1, 1992, p. 3)

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